Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov

Career

In 1958 he graduated from the School of Test Pilots, in 1965 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Since August 1958, a test pilot of the OKB named after AI Mikoyan. Participated in the tests of MiG-19, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-27, MiG-29, MiG-31 and their modifications. For the first time in the country, it reached a speed corresponding to the Mach number M = 3.

On E-166 and MiG-25 aircraft, 18 world aviation records were set (of which three are absolute), speed, dynamic ceiling, load capacity and climbing speed. In particular, he still owns the unaccounted flight altitude record (37650 meters) for manned jet aircraft, established on August 31, 1977, on an experimental MiG-25M fighter.

Major-General of Aviation (1983), Honored Coach of the USSR (1976), master of sports of international class (1975), Honored Test Pilot of the USSR (1969), Hero of the Soviet Union (1966).

Fedotov lived in the city of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region.

He died April 4, 1984 in a test flight on the MiG-31, together with the test navigator VS Zaitsev. In that flight there was a false alarm of the system of indication of the emergency fuel residue. Fedotov decided to sit down. Believing that there was not enough fuel on the plane, he made a sharp maneuver, but a heavy, fuel-filled airplane reached the overcritical corners of the attack and fell into a tailspin. Neither Fedotov nor Zaitsev didn't survive.

He was buried at the Bykov cemetery of the city of Zhukovsky.

The winner of the Lenin Prize (1981). He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Banner of Labor, and medals.

Memorial

• In honor of AV Fedotov, a street in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, was named.
• The name of Alexander Fedotov is carried by the school of test pilots, operating at the Gromov LII in the city of Zhukovsky.
• The honorary name of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the test pilot, Major General of Aviation Alexander Vasilyevich Fedotov was awarded to school No. 24 in the Kirov district of the city of Volgograd.